Online Collections

When possible SCRC works to make available digital versions of materials from its manuscript, university archives and rare book collections. Some of these are directly accessible through various portals while others can be searched within the CARLI (Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois) Digital Collections repository or OpenSIUC, our institutional repository.

Scanned photographs and text enhance and support each of SCRC's collection areas, offering a way to view primary sources online from anywhere in the world. These digitized materials document southern Illinois politics, culture, and history, American philosophy, theater history, and the history of Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIU).

Copyright and Citation

Southern Illinois University does not control copyright for many of these items. Images are made available for individual viewing and educational purposes only such as personal study, teacher preparation, and research. The reproduction, distribution, public display or other re-use of any content beyond a fair use as codified in Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law is at the user's own risk.

The Internet Archive serves as the platform for many of the digital resources on this list, including the university's yearbooks, annual catalogs and Board of Trustees reports, commencement programs and other serial and individual works.

Ten 16-millimeter black and white analog films, each approximately 30 minutes long, recording a 1969 summer seminar at the New York Studio School given by R. Buckminster Fuller with the guidance of Edwin Schlossberg.

SIU Carbondale history documented through photographs of university sports, faculty and staff, presidents and chancellors, student life and organizations, campus events, buildings, and campus aerial photographs.

Postcards and historic photographs of old buildings and street scenes pinned to a Google map at their current or former location. These images depict SIU Carbondale, the cities of Carbondale and Murphysboro, and other southern Illinois cities and towns.